Including analog tuners on DVRs “serves only a...
Including analog tuners on DVRs “serves only a tiny and rapidly disappearing niche in the market,” TiVo told the FCC in asking it to approve a waiver so such tuners aren’t needed (CD March 20 p17). “TiVo’s customers should not…
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be required to pay higher prices (between $100 and $150 per device) to subsidize the preservation of this obsolete technology,” said a filing in docket 11-105. It said extending a 2011 waiver would come after “TiVo already has conducted a highly successful consumer information campaign regarding its all-digital Premiere line of products and is ready to expand that effort to include its future devices also.” There were no comments in the docket on the new waiver request, the filing said (http://bit.ly/11wfvQH). “Over the past two years, only a tiny number of TiVo customers (0.2 percent) have even inquired about the lack of an analog tuner in its ‘Premiere’ line of products, and even fewer (0.05 percent) discontinued TiVo service as a result.” To start production of all-digital DVRs that can be delivered by the holiday season, the company said its petition needs to be OK'd soon.